Is Diversity a Luxury Item in Technology?
summary
A project traces colonial legacies inside U.S. startups by combining on-the-ground workshops with archival reading and interviews, reporting an EEG bike helmet prototype (turn signals on a helmet through motion plus EEG visualization), membership on MIT Media Lab’s Diversity Committee, repeated micro‑aggressions and a strong gender divide, and the finding that hiring diversity is bad but venture investment lacks diversity even more. Comparative interviews show incubator tourism from Chile to Silicon Valley and call out Wired UK pieces flagged by Ars Technica.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Colonialism in tech
- 3:55Micro-aggressions in tech
- 6:49Diversity as collective struggle
- 9:45Feminist movements history
- 11:56Diversity reports and hiring gaps
- 13:51Investment diversity and glass ceilings
- 15:58Colonial legacies in startups
- 17:22Cultural imperialism in tech
- 18:47Reclaiming micro-aggression
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